Coat of arms of Bjuv
Bjuv’s arms show a burning black torch with a red flame over a silver vertical band on a black field.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I svart fält en stolpe av silver belagd med en brinnande svart fackla med röd flamma.
This is the Swedish description in the Heraldica record. How it was composed and whether it is an official blazon have not been independently verified here. The editorial text distinguishes registry information from the municipal source.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 18 March 1955: Royal confirmation on
- 3 May 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their description
The Heraldica record describes a silver vertical band on black, charged with a burning black torch whose flame is red.
Source: Heraldica record 3045
Background in the municipal sources
Bjuv Municipality says its place brand takes its starting point from the mining torch in the municipal arms. The brand highlights the flame and the torch’s stripes; the source does not explain the symbolism of the arms’ other elements. The record lists royal confirmation in 1955 and registration in 1974.
Heraldic elements
The heraldic elements are identified using HERO, a heraldry ontology published through Finland's Finto service. It provides structured terminology for describing coats of arms and their components. The list describes the structure of the arms, not the symbolic meaning of its elements.
- escutcheon
- pale
- field
- Argent
- Gules
- Sable
- torch
- unpartitioned
Sources and image rights
Heraldica / National Archives of Finland · Wikidata
Image licence: CC BY-SA 3.0
Image source and credit: National Archives of Sweden / Vladimir Sagerlund
Original image. The image has been resized and converted to WebP. The derivative retains the original image’s licence.
